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Cinematic responses
Concentration camp memorials
East Germany
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German Marxist framework
Holocaust
Jewishness
Product details
- ISBN 9781571131294
- Weight: 456g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 24 Jun 1999
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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A long-overdue study of the East German view of the Holocaust over the years 1946-1989.
Stated Memory: East Germany and the Holocaust investigates communist Germany's attempt to explain the Holocaust within a framework that was at once German and Marxist. The book probes the contradictions and self-deceptionsarising from East Germany's official self-understanding as an enlightened, modern society in which Jewishness did not constitute "difference" or otherness. The study examines East German historiography of the Holocaust, includingits reflection in schoolbooks; analyzes East German concentration camp memorials; discusses the situation of Jews who remained in East Germany; and surveys East German cinematic and literary responses to the Nazi murder of the Jews. The book shows that regardless of the sincerity of the individuals involved in constructing these various forms of memory, the state attempted to orchestrate Holocaust discourse for its own purposes.
Thomas C. Foxis professor of German at the University of Alabama. He has written extensively on East German literature and the Holocaust.
THOMAS C. FOX is Professor of German at the University of Alabama. He is the author of Stated Memory: East Germany and the Holocaust (Camden House, 1999) and co-editor of Companion to the Works of Lessing (Camden House, 2005).
